“Tubes, Branches and Pumps in Development”
. . . is the title of the 2008 Developmental Biology Symposium at the University of Minnesota. This year the Developmental Biology Center is proud to be partnering with the Lillehei Heart Institute. Together we will be presenting an impressive line-up of speakers for what promises to be a unique and exciting Symposium event.
The Symposium will take place at the McNamara Alumni Center on Wednesday, September 24th from 8:00 AM to 5:00 pm and Thursday, September 25th from 8:30 am to noon. There has been a slight adjustment on the calendar from early plans for this event so please make note of these corrected dates. Please also note that the location and schedule of this year’s event differs from years past.
Registration Information
Speakers:
Markus Affolter, Biozentrum University of Basel Branching morphogenesis in flies and fish
Deborah Andrew, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Insights into tube size regulation from the Drosophila embryo
Alice Cheung, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Pollen tubes, the conduits that transport sperms to the egg cell in plants
Lindsay Hinck, University of California, Santa Cruz
Growing the mammary tree: "axon" guidance cues as adhesive factors
Mark Mercola, Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Discovery of Small Molecule Regulators of Stem Cell Cardiogenesis
Benjamin Podbilewicz, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
Developmental cell fusion and tubes
Didier Stainier, University of California San Francisco
Cell differentiation and morphogenesis at the AV canal
Michael D Schneider, Imperial College London
Cardiopoiesis: Cardiac myocyte creation by adult and embryonic stem cells
Brian Black, Univeristy of California, San Francisco
A transcriptional code for vascular development
There will be a Conference Banquet: Wednesday, September 24th At the Weisman Art Gallery, University of Minnesota, Mineapolis Campus Featuring an after dinner lecturer:
Ken Chien, Harvard Medical School
Towards human models of human heart disease: The islet-1 heart progenitor story
Poster
Short Program
